Businessman targeted by fake police officer, defrauded of Rs 12 lakh

Hathras: A surprising case has come to light from Hathras, UP. Where a vicious person cheated Rs 12 lakh from an asafoetida businessman by pretending to be a fake police officer. Through a WhatsApp call, the miscreant had tricked the businessman into believing that his son was involved in a crime. After registering the case, the police arrested the leader of the cyber fraud gang and recovered the defrauded amount along with eight mobile phones, IDs and ATM etc. The SP disclosed this matter on Saturday.
Disclosing the incident, SP Nipun Agarwal said that Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, son of Gopal Das Agarwal received a WhatsApp call from a number on January 6. On which a person told him that his son has committed a crime. If you want to save him, you will have to pay money. Hearing this, the businessman got nervous and deposited about Rs 12 lakh in various accounts. Later he came to know that his son had not committed any crime, he had become a victim of cyber fraud. After this the businessman filed a complaint in Kotwali Nagar police station and filed a case. Instructions were given to Inspector-in-charge Kotwali Nagar and Cyber Cell team to expose the matter. Along with this, SWOT and surveillance teams were also deployed. On Friday night, in a joint action, the police caught a vicious cyber fraudster near Hatisa bridge.
The vicious person caught during interrogation revealed his name as Salman Ali, village Sandli, police station Barauli, district Gopalganj, Bihar. The vicious have recovered eight mobile phones, five Aadhaar cards, three ATM cards and Rs 11 lakh 78 thousand 370 from their possession. The team that arrested the vicious thug included the team of in-charge Inspector Vijay Singh and the cyber/surveillance team of Kotwali Nagar police station and in-charge Inspector Bharat Bhushan Bhati. A reward of Rs 25,000 was given to the police team that caught the vicious thug by SP Nipun Aggarwal.
According to the police, the arrested accused told during interrogation that he has studied till 10th class. He did not get any job. He came in contact with Vivek Yadav and Sagar Ghosale, residents of Madhya Pradesh. Who had given him some accounts to open. He and his associates posed as fake policemen and extracted information about a person from Hathras. Then by calling the son a criminal and scaring him in the police station, he got around Rs 12 lakh transferred to his various accounts. He sent the money to the bank accounts of his other associates through net banking and UPI.
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According to the police, the cyber fraud gang used to obtain information about the students and their parents doing coaching in Kota and other places and obtain their data. By putting police ID on WhatsApp on smart phones, they used to intimidate people and get them to deposit money in various accounts. Accounts were bought by vicious thugs and they kept the passbooks, ATM cards and mobile numbers of the account holders with themselves, so that the police could not reach them.